Sharp, light and simple, the 2-group/4-element Vixen 20mm NPL Plössl Eyepiece design offers flat, clear imagery well corrected for chromatic aberrations.  This is a great lunar/planetary viewer which will also produce a sharp digiscoping image.

Sharp, light and simple, the 2-group/4-element Vixen 6mm NPL Plössl Eyepiece design offers flat, clear imagery well corrected for chromatic aberrations.

Vixen Tube Mount Rings and accessory mount rings clamp onto telescope tubes to provide mounting points for accessories and mount heads.   They are designated by their inside diameter.  Both types can be joined by dovetail tube plates on the bottom for attachment to Porta, GP-Series and SPHINX mounts.

Tube Rings are sold in pairs and have 1/4"-20 threaded tripod holes on the top and bottom.  The optional Tube Ring Accessory Plate (#AM-AD-3548, B&H code "VITRAP") fits across the top of the rings for additional mounting options and greater stability.

Accessory Mount Rings are sold singly and have a 1/4"-20 threaded hole on bottom and 1/4"-20 tripod screw on top.

The Vixen Dovetail Tube Plate attaches to the Vixen Great Polaris, Great Polaris DX, GP2, GPD2, Porta, Sphinx, and SXD telescope mounts, as well as the Great Polaris' many 'copies' on the market such as the Celestron CG-5 & Meade LXD75 mounts.  This is the plate to choose for most situations where you're just mounting a scope and perhaps a camera atop the scope.  If you wish to mount a more complex arrangement of guide scope aside a main scope, or a scope and a large camera setup aside one another, then instead use the #2576 DX Accessory Plate.

The Vixen #2661 dovetail plate's drilled to carry Vixen's tube rings, which hold the telescopes themselves.  Atop the tube rings which you would attach to this plate, you can attach Vixen's #3548 Tube Ring Accessory Plate to mount a small camera, finderscope, etc.

Well respected throughout the world, the Vixen GP2 telescope mount is a finely-machined, compact, and portable solution for supporting and navigating your telescope.  This mount is so well designed and assembled that it is the standard which is universally copied by many different companies outside of Japan, often known as the 'CG-5' or 'EQ-4'.  The copies focus on lowering costs, and in so doing use rougher tolerances and inferior lubricants-a cottage industry exists surrounding improving them via aftermarket changes.  Why suffer through such scenarios when the real thing is so easily acquired?

Every geared part on the Vixen GP2 is individually inspected before assembly, and it is 100% manufactured in Japan. Its 144-tooth brass worm wheels dramatically increase tracking accuracy versus 'similar' mounts.

One of the best elements of buying a Vixen GP2 is that it is so modular; Vixen offers a slew of upgrades to accommodate your growing astronomical interests and skills, so you'll use the mount for a long time to come.  For superior astronomical tracking, consider the optional polar axis scope and the Starbook-S navigational system, which offers precision "GO TO" capability in a controller that has a built-in star chart.  It is a system that is continually praised for its accuracy and ease of use.

Vixen's GP2 mount does not include the dovetail mounting plate, but they're included with every Vixen optical tube assembly.  You can use the Accessory Plate to mount most any other manufacturer's scope on to the GP2.

Note! Requires tripod & dovetail mounting plate.

This is the same Vixen Dovetail Plate Mounting Block that is originally supplied upon the Vixen Sphinx, GP2, and GPD2 mounts.  It is primarily offered as a replacement for a lost or damaged original dovetail plate mounting block.

However, if you own a Vixen Atlux mount and wish to use the Atlux mount with Vixen's standard #2661 dovetail tube plate or #2576 accessory plate, you will need to purchase this dovetail mounting block as well as Vixen's #8779 base plate for the Atlux mount.

The Vixen Slow Motion Handle attaches to the Great Polaris series mounts for fine manual slow motion control of the right ascension or declination axes.  Two are originally supplied with these mounts, and it is offered here as a replacement for a lost or damaged unit.

This is the same Vixen Counterweight Shaft that is originally supplied upon the Vixen Great Polaris, GP2, and GPD2 series mounts, and is offered as a replacement for your lost or damaged original counterweight shaft.

This Vixen 8.2 lb (3.7 kg) SX Counterweight is used to add stability to German-type equatorial mounts.  While your standard counterweight might be sufficient for observing at 45° of declination, when you're at or near zenith it might be a different story.  The same is true as you add various accessories such as cameras and off axis guiders; these all add to the weight upon the scope's mount, which in turn necessitates additional counterweights.  It is a good idea to have enough counterweights on the mount to handle the scope easily at zenith, and then when you're at more middle declinations you simply move the weights up towards the neck of the mount.

The Vixen Optics HAL130-GP is a full size, stable and sturdy aluminum tripod intended for the GP2, GPD2, and all older Vixen Great Polaris series telescope mounts.

The HAL130-GP has height adjustment from 31.9-51.1" (81-130cm) and weighs just over 12 pounds (5.5kg), so it isn't terribly difficult to transport.  If you need additional height to accommodate your blessed stature or the use of a long refractor scope, add the optional #3909 Half Pillar.